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By the end of this recipe you should know how to estimate value of each vote on Steem.

This recipe will take you through the process of fetching necessary data and formulating estimation.

Intro

Calculating value of each vote depends on multiple factors. Reward fund, recent claims, account’s total vests, rate of the sbd, voting power and weight of the vote. It is quite useful information for users to see and estimate. All of the data is possible to get via available APIs.

Steps

Get Reward Fund Current reward fund information is crucial part of estimation

2. Get Account

Next we will need total vests held by account, get_accounts api call returns account data, which will hold vesting_shares, received_vesting_shares, delegated_vesting_shares. It also returns current voting_power information.